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AUDIT INFORMATION
Audit Fees and Non-Audit Fees
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The following table presents fees for professional audit services rendered to AbbVie by Ernst & Young LLP for
the years ended December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, and fees for other services rendered to AbbVie by Ernst &
Young LLP for that period.
Audit fees:(1) $10.0 $8.1
Audit related fees:(2) 0.2 0.0
Tax fees:(3) 5.1 4.9
All other fees:(4) 0.5 0.8
Total $15.8 $13.8
(1) Ernst & Young LLP billed or will bill AbbVie for professional services rendered for the audit of AbbVie’s annual
financial statements, the audits of AbbVie’s internal control over financial reporting, statutory and subsidiary audits,
the review of documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and certain accounting consultations
in connection with the audits.
(2) Audit related fees include: accounting consultations, agreed upon procedures and audits of certain employee
benefit plan financial statements.
(3) Tax fees consist principally of professional services for corporate tax compliance, expatriate tax compliance and tax
advisory services.
(4) Other fees represent Independent Review Organization services.
As previously disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 19, 2013 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, on December 14, 2012 AbbVie’s audit committee approved (a) the dismissal of Deloitte & Touche
LLP, effective as of the date of Deloitte’s completion of the audit services for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012
and the filing of AbbVie’s 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and (b) the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the
company’s independent registered public accounting firm to perform independent audit services beginning with the fiscal
year ending December 31, 2013.
Policy on Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of the Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm
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The audit committee has established policies and procedures to pre-approve all audit and permissible non-audit
services performed by the independent registered public accounting firm and its related affiliates.
Prior to engagement of the independent registered public accounting firm for the next year’s audit, management
will submit a schedule of all proposed services expected to be rendered during that year for each of four categories of
services to the audit committee for approval.
Prior to engagement, the audit committee pre-approves these services by category of service. The fees are
budgeted and the audit committee requires the independent registered public accounting firm and management to
report actual fees versus the budget periodically by category of service. During the year, circumstances may arise when it
may become necessary to engage the independent registered public accounting firm for additional services not
contemplated in the original pre-approval. In those instances, the audit committee requires specific pre-approval before
engaging the independent registered public accounting firm.
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